India is a country with rich cultural heritage showing striking diversities in terms of language, marriage practices as well as in their genetic architecture. Geneticists and anthropologists have attempted to elucidate the nature of India's rich diversity for decades. In this book, a study was carried out on the two populations, Kshatriya and Chamars of Uttar Pradesh, India to obtain their and inter and intra population variation in the genome using mitochondrial and Y chromosome markers. Mitochondria and Y chromosome are inherited through mother and father, respectively, have been used...

As an institutional embodiment of the international safeguards regime, the IAEA has been central to the international diplomacy of nuclear control and efforts to limit nuclear-weapons proliferation. It has played an important role as a negotiator, facilitator and an implementation agency; it has been the core of the regime in its capacity as the role of nuclear watch-dog. This book traces the evolution of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as an autonomous and an effective mechanism in facilitating international cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear technology, application of...

This book presents medical image watermarking techniques and algorithms for telemedicine and other emerging applications. The authors have developed improved/novel watermarking techniques for telemedicine applications that offer higher robustness, better perceptual quality and increased embedding capacity and secure watermark.

This thesis proposes new power converter topologies suitable for aircraft systems. However, more electrical systems requires more electrical power to be generated in the aircraft. The increased consumption of electrical power in both civil and military aircrafts has necessitated the use of more efficient electrical power conversion technologies.